by John Rachel… “Danny,” pleaded his mother, “please, eat your dinner, You haven’t touched a thing.” Danny was six years old. “Don’t call me Danny! My name is Flava-yo.” “Please eat something,” said his mother. Then, you can watch TV.” “I hate your cooking!” said Danny. “Why can’t we have McDonald’s?” “I made this special for…
#forbes #williamduer by Philip Loyd… That’s right, your beloved founder Philip Loyd is now doing his crazy Flashbytes thing on, of all places, Forbes. Philip on Forbes. And about whom? What? Hamilton? Franklin? Not hardly. How about William Duer? Huh? Exactly. William Duer and the great Wall Street crash of 1792. Come check out The…
by Legally Philly… #thehammer I recently made a fateful choice: I decided to make my lawyer my new business partner. Big Mistake. Huge mistake, but not for the reasons you might think. Not because all lawyers come from the firm of Dewey, Cheetum, and Howe. Nothing so trivial. So why, then? Why did I decide…
by Purely Philly… I was down in the basement yesterday; that’s when I found him: my little friend from the 17th century. I just bought a home in the Beacon Hill district of Boston. It’s one of those old houses that dates back before even America itself. When I went down to the basement to…
#philiployd #flashbytes #flashfiction I have this recurring nightmare. It’s like that Cheers episode where Eddie Lebec, Carla’s husband, dies, and both his wives show up. Only my nightmare is worse. Much worse. It’s the day of my funeral and there I am in my casket. It’s a shitty casket, but I couldn’t care less about…
by Chris Hlad… There’s a station in Los Angeles that thinks it’s doing humanity a favor. While their intentions are good, the one little thing that they don’t realize is that the only thing worse than a broken heart is a heart that is broken twice. There is no remedy for this, no simple cure…
#philiployd #FlashFiction #Flashbytes I was down at this bar called Southdowns the other night when all of a sudden I run into Jim McCaffrey. You know Jim. He’s the lead anchor over at Channel 12 News. The old guy. The one who’s been there for what seems like a million years. In reality, McCaffrey’s been…
by Chris Hlad… To call Tully Edwards overweight would be a gross understatement; calling him just plain gross, on the other hand, would be more apropos. Big Tully stumbled into his big predicament like most Americans do: very slowly. At first it was just a few pounds which could easily be taken off in a…
Flash Fiction, Flashbyte by Philip Loyd I saw her. I really saw her. Who? Why, Mona Menendez, of course. You may remember Mona from the children’s television program, The Nighty Night Show. She was the pretty young lady in the golf-style, checkered pants. The one with the sidekick, Luna. Remember? Read the whole story in…
by Chris Hlad… I tried killing myself, but to no avail. Why it didn’t work, I have no idea. I’d read about lots of ways to leave this earth, and the one that appealed to me the most was hanging. It would be quick – just a snap of the neck and you’re done. Unless,…
